ML Engineer - API Platform
Core
Build an end-to-end developer platform and API for fine-tuning, evaluating, and running low-latency inference on general-purpose AI models for physical robots.
Role type
Senior IC API Product Engineer (ML Infrastructure)
Builds
Developer platform enabling external partners to fine-tune models, evaluate them, and run inference in their own environments.
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Developer Platforms / Robotics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Backend systems engineering, distributed systems, API design, multi-tenant architecture, low-latency inference, Python, observability, SLOs (via careerplan.io/jobs/6fe1ce2d-303b-4d34-9c13-4cb6476f4cbe-ml-engineer-api-platform-at-physicalintelligence)
Preferred skills
Streaming systems, WebSockets, QUIC, model-serving infrastructure, early-stage startup experience, security/auth, Kubernetes, GCP, ClickHouse, React, TypeScript
Technologies
Python, Postgres, ClickHouse, GCP, Kubernetes, Modal, React, TypeScript
Responsibilities
Build and operate low-latency inference systems; architect reliable multi-tenant infrastructure with rate limiting and isolation; design systems scaling from small partners to millions of robots; integrate partner data through validation and fine-tuning pipelines; collaborate with researchers to productize new model capabilities; define the developer platform roadmap for general-purpose robotics.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
